[2] She worked for the West Virginia State Museum and Prentice Hall before joining the editorial collective of WomaNews in 1982.
Her first book, an anthology of short stories shared with Carla Tomaso titled Voyages Out One, was published in 1989.
[8] From 1997 to 2005 she wrote the biweekly column "Lesbian Notions", which was syndicated to LGBT publications across the United States.
[9] The Ada Decades, her first novel since 1997, was published in 2017[10] and was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.
[11] Two historical novels followed in 2021: "Testimony" and "Dear Miss Cushman," both published by Bywater Books.